Sample sentences for THE GOLDEN RULE

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to treat others as you would like to be treated

...the moral diversity we have all heard so much about is in fact vastly exaggerated. In particular, the major religions of the world, which represent the vast majority of humans on the planet, disagree quite a bit about God but agree quite a bit about morality. All the major religions have some form of the Golden Rule...
Dinesh D'Souza -- What's So Great About Christianity

He started to stand up, the golden rule with creeps being that you never responded, and you never ever entered into any conversation with them.
Micheal Scott -- The Alchemyst
So perhaps the Golden Rule indicated that he should stay mum, and the Golden Rule was really Colin's only Rule.
John Green -- An Abundance of Katherines
I would be satisfied to have the Golden Rule be the only law; I see no need for any other, nor for any method of enforcing it.
Robert A. Heinlein -- The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
The root of equality, Adams said, was the Golden Rule—"Love your neighbor as yourself."
David McCullough -- John Adams
It reminds me of the golden rule: Do unto others ....
Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie's World
I taught my children the Golden Rule.
Truman Capote -- In Cold Blood
For Blomkvist the golden rule of journalism was that there were always people who were responsible.
Stieg Larsson -- The Girl Who Played with Fire
Many offer testimony to such principles as the Golden Rule, living in the moment, the importance of love and giving.
Jay Allison, et al. -- This I Believe
I subscribed to Marx's basic dictum, which has the simplicity and generosity of the Golden Rule: "From each according to his ability; to each according to his needs.
Nelson Mandela -- Long Walk to Freedom
In the cases of Mehlinger, Perrin, and Scipio, their embrace of their new communities was certainly informed to some degree by morality—a feeling of obligation to live by the Golden Rule.
Warren St. John -- Outcasts United
"Forgive our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us," observed Mr. Grant, "is the language used by our Divine Master himself, and it should be the golden rule with us, his humble followers."
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Pioneers
They concentrated on buoyancy control and surface swimming for the first few days, made us stretch our bodies, made us longer in the water, timing us, stressing the golden rule for all young SEALs-you must be good in the water, no matter what.
Marcus Luttrell -- Lone Survivor
Natasha did not follow the golden rule advocated by clever folk, especially by the French, which says that a girl should not let herself go when she marries, should not neglect her accomplishments, should be even more careful of her appearance than when she was unmarried, and should fascinate her husband as much as she did before he became her husband.
Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace
But there was more to consider than the Golden Rule: there was the small matter of liking Lindsey.
John Green -- An Abundance of Katherines
So perhaps the Golden Rule indicated that he should stay mum, and the Golden Rule was really Colin's only Rule.
John Green -- An Abundance of Katherines
You could say that the golden rule says the same thing as Kant's universal law of morals.
Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie's World
The enemy of my enemy is my friend—isn't that the golden rule in your charming little neighborhood?
Daniel Silva -- The Black Widow
It was because of the Golden Rule, actually, that he hated himself for Katherine III: he'd believed that Katherines did unto him as he would never have done unto them.
John Green -- An Abundance of Katherines

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